June 2016

Unfolding | Set Based Approach | Generate Rows Dynamically – Episode 6

In this video, we are going to learn; How we can Generate rows dynamically for each record of a table in set based approach, and How to do calculations on each row of a table generated dynamically You can download the script used in this example from below the video.

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Unfolding | Set Based Approach | How join works internally – Episode 4

In this video, we are going to understand how join works internally. If you have a good understanding of joins and how it works, you can skip this video and move to the next video in this series. If not, lets start understanding the joins. You can download the script used in this example from below the video. Here

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Unfolding | Set Based Approach | SQL Server Query execution architecture – Episode 3

In this video, we are going to understand the query execution architecture which helps us to understand the importance of set based approach. When a T-SQL statement gets submitted to SQL server, it goes through multiple steps before we get the final output. Lets have a look on SQL Server query execution architecture.

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Unfolding | Set Based Approach | Introduction to the course – Episode 2

This video will give you insight of the topic that we are going to cover in this series. We know that the thinking in terms of sets is creative and innovative and once you start understanding the concepts, believe me, you will find it is simple too. Writing set based queries needs a good understanding

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Unfolding | Set Based Approach | Why set based approach – Episode 1

Welcome to my course “Unfolding | Set Based Approach”. This is my first video tutorial series. In this series, I am going to share the concepts and techniques being used to create set based SQL queries. This course is not based on how to write queries (this you can find at many places), rather it is based on

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It’s time to install SQL Server 2016

Microsoft has launched the SQL Server 2016. We can download and install it from here. However, when we start installation of SQL Server 2016, we can see some installation changes there. Prior to SQL Server 2016, “SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)” was a part of the feature list of main SQL Server installation (which starts after clicking

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